RAILROADS IN PHOTOS AND PAINTING

trainferries arriving in detroit

Malcolm Moore 4wPM - was built by the firm (1 of 92) for the Australian Army to haul stores inland from beach-heads to storage dumps. It is powered by a Ford flathead V8 truck engine, with 4 speeds in each direction and is 2' gauge. It weighs in at a shade over 3 tons and has a drawbar pull of 1700 pounds.


The Days Rail Tractor - this is a 1940 product of Days Engineering, a firm that seemed to be willing to build anything that anybody wanted! It's got a McCormick Deering model 10-20 'upper' on a standard Days 0-6-0 frame. The unit was used on a tramway in the Rubicon Forest near Alexandra, Victoria, Australia. It was taken out of service in 1953, and is in original (unrestored) condition. This one is 3'4" gauge. Days built several others in 2' and 3' gauge.

Did they ever restore these little engines? They are really cool

The site says staus is operational so I assume that phot is of operational rolling stock
home page is
http://www.alexandratramway.org.au/index.htm
Look under non steam for that particular one
that museaum is only an hour or so away from me.
The tramways referd to on the site were used by sawmills to haul logs out of the forest

this is an interesting one although the photo is old


Clark & Kidd built the first sawmill in the Rubicon Forest in 1907, and constructed a 3-ft 4½-inch (1029mm) gauge wooden-railed tramway out of the forest and down to the river flats below. From this point to Alexandra, the sawmillers had to depend on road transport, which proved unreliable in winter and caused great damage to the roads. In 1912, the Rubicon Lumber & Tramway Company completed a 2-ft (610mm) gauge steel-railed line connecting the forest tramway with the railway station in Alexandra. The line was operated with three small (6-tonne) Krauss 0-4-0WT locomotives which, through poor maintenance, quickly acquired a reputation for starting fires along the line.

Cane trains.
sugar cane trains are a common sight in the cane growing areas of Queensland. These narrow guage trains haul cane from the growers paddocks to the sugarmills


Today they represent what is probably the world's most advanced series of 610 mm gauge railways. Along a 1,750 km coastal strip stretching from just north of Brisbane to just north of Cairns you will find:

o 4,000 km of track
o 250 diesel-hydraulic locomotives weighing between 15 and 40 tons each
o Trains of up to 2,000 tonnes and up to one kilometre in length
o Runs of up to 119 km between pick-up point and the sugar mill

hamburgboy --- that is one strange steam engine at your post #3871324 on p.12 !!! Where is it ?

Good pic, thanks. I've never seen anything like the drive wheels on that one.

not sure , but believe they were mountain locomotives for heavy freight trains .
were they called BIG BOYS ?

similar :

I don't think it's the same locomotive setup hbg. Look at the wheels - the other engine has two big drive wheels on each side and nothing where the normal drive wheels are and two big drive wheels almost under the engineers cabin THEN more drive wheels UNDER the coal box !!!!! I've never seen anything like it.

There's a LOTTA drive power there - it looks like it would be the engine for mountain trains or very long and heavy loaded trains.

list and pics of the largest locomotives ... quite something !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_largest_locomotive

I learn a lot about railroads via music.

She married a B&O brakeman; that took and throwed her down.

If you're expecting some trouble from pesky natives...

Thanks letty ---

panzade, THAT is exactly what I need for the parking lot at WalMart !!! with steerable front wheels of course.

hbg, thanks - I'll give the site a good perusing.............

Ok, we're slow so I went to my storage unit to find the windows from the Longview, TX depot. The windows were taken out of the depot during the late '60's or very early '70's and put in the trash pile. My Dad saved them from complete destruction. It's my hope to place them in the Atlanta, TX - Texas and Pacific R. R. Museum - which is in the old depot. Along with all the other T & P stuff I have.


While not marked with any R. R. designators - this can was probably used by brakemen to oil the wadding used in the old car wheel axels. As a kid on the tracks, it was always fun to see a train come through with a "Hot Box" (the oil soaked wadding on fire). If left on fire long enough the axel box would weld itself to the car framework and the wheel would freeze up and just skid along making a hell of a lot of noise. I've seen it all.

Ive got an old Reading Co, oiler can. The one I have is a bit smaller and is made of tin instead of Galvanized steel. It has a Reading Lines diamond on the side . Ill probably give mine to teh STrasburg RR musuem some day along with the rolling stock inventory shots of the Reading and the PEnnsy taken early inWWII

Here is the 'mystery' steam engine that hamburgboy showed us solved.
http://www.cassrailroad.com/shay6.html
I asked the Nat'l Historical Railway Society and got the solution.

Ok, here is a scratch pic of the site - it's very interesting. Thanks, hbg !!!
These were very specialized engines built for a single purpose.

and thank you , danon !

( i grew up with railway lines really close by - shunting freight trains in the harbour of hamburg - didn't mind the noise - probably as good as a lullaby ! )

a model of one of the old freight-shunters